Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-09-15

farmers, who are not obliged to divide with
the local speculator; and if by chance
now and then loss occurs, it need not
create CONSERVATION, for as it is the specu-
lator assesses all his losses on the sue
ceeding purchasers.
2. Where there is patron factory the
patrons reserve the right to, and do, skim
the nights milk during summer, and
generally all of it in spring and fall at
lsast three out of four milkings. The
lack of uniformity in setting the milk, and
the difference in the conditions, cause it to
reach the factory in every stage of quality,
and the result is in most cases cheese be-
low the average standard of half-skims.
This the buyer takes advantage of. buying
the whole lot Mt the price of the poorest
half. If the patrons had set up the same
standard of quality for milk that the
buyer insists upon, twice per day delivery;
this milk could have been made into first
class stock, and one point in profitable
dairying secured.
3. The patrons who make butter at
homo lose largely by not cooperating in
its manufactures; and they produce the
usual quality of store butter, that is ex-
changed for Goldfish, pound for pound,
when if il had been made at the factory it
would have had quality and uniformity
about it, and being sold ns fast as made,
and in large enough quantity TO attract at
tention of butter buyers, not barter mer-
chants, it would be sold for money, and at
double the price actually received by the
ordinary butter maker, and full co-opera-
tion would at this point also make an
other paying profit over home industry.
4. Why farmers will not cooperate and
manufacture, not sell, their milk is also
remarkable, when they can see that by not
doing SO they nre not realizing nearly
what they ought. But distrust md petty
jealousy prevent, and large sums are lost.
case is in mind where the dairymen of n
neighberhoed sell milk, all new, ut 60 and
70 cents per lG0 pounds, to man who
Skins it blue, and then sells the skim
milk in the near at-hnnd city for enough
to pay them and all other expenses, and
leaves the Spectator the butter clear, for
his doing for them what they could do MS
well for themselves. "Oh," they say, "he's
sure pay; we know Just what we are going
to get for our milk and no troubled" And
SO they discard cooperation, which would
be as sure return ns an individual agree
ment, and allow the uncommercial trans
action to 60 on, even allowing the specu-
lator to set his own price for the milk, his
opinion of its worth, discarding the old
business adage that ait takes two to mako
bargain"
5. In this milk selling cooperation
would save another loss seldom thought
of, but if made into cheese and the whole
product of milk sold, would make large
sum in the aggregate. A milk buyer buys
the milk of 600 COWS, amounting to prob
ably $4,000 pounds daily in June. With
out changing the price, the shrinkage in
July amounts to probably $500 pounds,
which means about SIT less money in the
buying expense account. but the shr;nkape
in cheese will be less than 100 pounds.
By this dispensation of Providence the
milk buyer gets $50 pounds of cheese for
nothing, which if made by cooperation
would have been saved to the patrons,
about $40 per day to divide pro rata.
These are few of the things that make
dairying Improbable, and which we'll
stuck-to CO. operation would tend to remedy.
j. G., Ohio. in NeU York Tribune.